Mihai Bărbulescu

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Mihai Bărbulescu (born September 29, 1947 in Oradea ) is a Romanian ancient historian and classical archaeologist .

After graduating from the Emanuil-Gojdu-Gymnasium in Oradea, Mihai Bărbulescu studied Ancient History and Classical Archeology at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca from 1965 to 1970 . From 1970 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History and Archeology of the Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca. With a thesis on Greco-Roman cults in the province of Dacia ("Cultele greco-romane în provincia Dacia") he received his doctorate in 1986 at the Babeş-Bolyai University .

There he was appointed associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1994. From 1996 to 2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy. He headed the Department of Ancient History and Archeology of the University from 1996 to 2007. From 2003 to 2008 he was President of the National Archeology Commission. In 2008 he was appointed director of the Accademia di Romania in Rome , which he headed until 2018. From 2010 he was representative of the Romanian Academy in the Union Académique Internationale .

The main research interests of Mihai Bărbulescu, who from 1971 carried out archaeological investigations in the legionary camp and in the Roman city of Potaissa , include the history and archeology of the Roman province of Dacia, ancient military history, religion and the fine arts of antiquity, as well as epigraphy .

Bărbulescu is a member of numerous scientific advisory bodies, including since 1985 the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum in Basel , the Dacia periodicals . Revue d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne of the Romanian Academy, Ephemeris Dacoromana of the Accademia di Romania and the Studia Historica. Historia Antigua of the University of Salamanca . Since 2009 he has been on the scientific advisory board of the Laboratorio di studi e ricerche sulle Antiche province Danubiane at the University of Ferrara and lecturer for the doctoral courses in archeology and history at the University of Messina .

He has received numerous prizes and awards for his achievements. In 2003 he became a Knight of the Romanian Order of Loyalty . In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the Western University of Timisoara , and in 2011 from the University of Petru Maior in Târgu Mureş .

Publications (selection)

  • Interferenţe spirituale în Dacia romană. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1984 (2nd, revised and expanded edition Tribuna, Cluj-Napoca 2003).
  • Din istoria militară a Daciei romane. Legiunea V Macedonica şi castrul de la Potaissa. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca 1987.
  • Potaissa. Studiu monografic (= Dissertationes Musei Potaissensis. Volume 1). Muzeul de istorie Turda, Turda 1994.
  • The legion camp of Potaissa (Turda). Castrul legionar de la Potaissa (Turda) (= guide to the archaeological monuments from Dacia Porolissensis . Volume 7). Zalau 1997.
  • Mormântul princiar germanic de la Turda. The Germanic princely grave of Turda. Tribuna, Cluj-Napoca 2008.
  • Signum originis. Religie, artă şi societate în Dacia romană: Romanian Academy, Bucharest 2009.
  • Inscripţiile din castrul legionar de la Potaissa. The Inscriptions of the Legionary Fortress at Potaissa. Romanian Academy, Bucharest 2012.
  • Arta romana la Potaissa. Romanian Academy, Bucharest and Mega, Cluj-Napoca 2015.
  • Potaissa. L'arte romana in una citta della Dacia. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 2016.
  • Bălţi. 1818-1944. Romanian Academy, Bucharest 2017.
  • Și sa dansat lambada. Școala Ardeleană, Cluj-Napoca 2019.

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SURNAME Bărbulescu, Mihai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian ancient historian and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oradea